Thanks to the hard work of Frank Karlitschek during the holiday season, we are proud to welcomeKDE-Apps.org amongst our midsts. KDE-Apps.org is the new online database for KDE applications. Since the site is still very new, Frank would like to hear your suggestions for improvements. The database is also still a bit empty but you can change that bysubmitting
the KDE applications that you have written to the site.

Last year, the KDE application repository apps.kde.com so kindly provided by MieTerra dropped off the web due to financial problems. We hope to have found a worthy successor in KDE-Apps.org

This new site allows people completely unreleated to an application to submit one.. this is a problem, because in the future, the author of the application might want to add links to a new version or whatnot, but can't control it..

Freshmeat had the same problem, so they added a checkbox when you submit an application that said "I am not the author or primary developer of this application"... they also added a form for primary authors to "claim ownership".

I like to get an impression of an application by viewing screenshots. It would be very convenient, if you can click on "screenshots" and see all screenshots of that application instead of just one. It's the same issue like at kde-look.org. When I watch a theme, I usually open 10 windows with screenshots and close them one after another.

It's a small program that allows you to train your spacial insight, if that 's the correct term for it.
A cube is shown and from 4 alternatives you have to pick the identical cube.
Tests like these often occur in job applications and school choice advises.

The description of the program is in dutch because it was written for a dutch contest. The goal of the contest was to write a computer program for primaty schools. I didn't win 1st prize (mobile phone) but even better: an inflatable tux of 1 meter high. Too bad this penguin has a small leak and its uptieme is only a few weeks.

- corporate design:
use the logo of kde.org, red instead of blue at kde.org, light gray as on kde.org
- internationalisation of the ui
- show wether it is true kde or qt
- kde-apps feed to kde.org seems to lack behind

Some improvements not so far mentioned on the dot that I'd like to see are:

- A distinction between an update and a new release; an updated record (e.g. a corrected spelling or a new download URL) shouldn't reappear on the front page, but new releases should. Otherwise we have no easy way of tracking when new KDE apps are released, which was one of the handiest things about apps.kde.com

- Links to the changelog, screenshots page and download page as well as the home page; kde-apps.org isn't suitable for a large formatted changelog, many screenshots or a more complex download list, so quick links would be a nice courtesy

- A mini description of each item and, where appropriate, a summarised changelog on the index pages; screenshots and names by themselves aren't sufficiently descriptive, and if a new version has come out it's useful to see on the index page what has changed

It's nice to see an app repistory back, anyway. It would be *really* nice if it could get even better than apps.kde.com!

"06 January
KWrite (Text Editor) 4.1
KWrite is a simple texteditor, with syntaxhighlighting, codefolding, dynamic word wrap and more, it's the lightweight version of Kate, providing more ...
3.1.x

KWrite (Text Editor) 4.1
KWrite is a simple texteditor, with syntaxhighlighting, codefolding, dynamic word wrap and more, it's the lightweight version of Kate, providing more ..."

Why is it twice?

One bigger problem has been some programs with modules. There could have been ten or more modules and all of them were mentioned separately when a new release of a program appeared. They took all the space for new apps in the main page of www.kde.org.

This is a great site - Period.
Nobody can really tell me that the ugly mess we've seen before
as apps.kde.com can really match this.
Way cool we've now got a non-commercial community-driven
app repository.

Just an idea - I can afford the bandwidth for the screenshots for my apps. Maybe in future the upload of screenshots could be optional. The links can just be to some other server like with the packages. Perhaps worth implementing?

Otherwise this is so many times better than appsy. Also, the kde-look engine needs updating to generate useful 's, but I'm sure that this is issue is known..

Yes, apps.kde.com was not very attractive IMHO. With this new site there seems potential for kde-look folk to colleborate with kde-app folk on some things. They are both KDE centric, yet doing their own thing, share logins, share looks. They seem more consistant with each other then almost any other KDE related sites do. I think they are a good thing which only can get better!

Perhaps a feature would be nice where KDE users can vote for apps or parts they like in apps they see on this new site to be in future KDE versions. It all seems much more accessable now.

Maybe enabling dynamic syncing of software if the program in the system menu (installed locally on users machine) is updated on the site, prompting a "wanna compile a update file for a ?" window so user could automatically update his/her software installation...

Ok, maybe a bit too large move to make it a repository-type system. :-)

And a bit large move to make the kde as dynamically updated thingie...

Looks great! It also won't have all of the old unmaintained apps that were on apps.kde.org.

One annoying thing I find with this site (and kde-look.org) though - clicking on the thumbnail from the listing doesn't actually open up the image, it goes to the page for the item. Surely it would be more logical if the thumbnail linked to the image?

>It also won't have all of the old unmaintained apps that were on apps.kde.org.
No, that's really a pitty that is.
Sometimes it's useful to know about an app, even if it isn't maintained anymore. Some apps written for KDE2 havn't been ported but would be worth porting and this might been done more easily than rewriting them. Or even if an rewrite was neccessary: Looking at the old apps you can get ideas of how things could be done.

That's true, however I think having a lot of old outdated applications would give new users a bad impression. I think we (as KDE supporters) want them to see what works, what's new, what's being used and actively developed right now.

I really like it but in my opinion the Multimedia section needs an additional entry. Something like CD/DVD because now I added K3b in Utilities because both Sound and Video seemed inappropriate.Now you think: "Sure! He wants a category of his own." ;) I think there are many apps fitting in such a section like cd players and audio rippers and the like. Perhaps it could even be possible to add an application to multile sections (restricted to three or something).
Anyway: thanks a lot for your work on this. It is really appreciated. :)

If you know of any application not added yet, submit them! KDE-Apps.org won't be a real replacement of apps.kde.com until more content is added. So, if you can remember things you had seen on apps.kde.com and can't find them here.
Also I do miss the binary packages, I must say.

>You paid for them at apps.kde.com?
Yes, I did. Why not? Even though most of the applications listed where easy to build (./configure --prefix=/opt/kde3 && make && make install) I preferred to have RPM packages and since I just havn't got the time to always build my own spec-file, I was very happy with this service.

kde-apps.org should have their own paypal account. Just payed what I (couldn't) afford from my wellfare payment, and I'd prefer it'd go to to kde-apps.org specifically. Not that that I have anything against kde-looks - it just doesn't matter that much to me...

Thanks goodness! apps.kde.com isn't completely dead.
I just hope it will experience a reinkarnation after they managed to find enough sponsors.
In some regards it's just way better than the new site Period